I got a weird amount of pushback -- not from the Scribblies, but from random beta readers or people who read the published books -- about the fact that soldiers in the Secret Country are divided into groups named for flowers, and have their particular flower embroidered on a sash or cap. This was not right, it was not a proper kind of uniform, it was feminine, on and on. It has historical analogs, but they really just did not like it.

The various fixed notions that both readers and writers have are very odd, and I am glad that you periodically write something that should shake them up.

P.